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>reading books purely for humor

That chart is only a bait for plebes.

you know, it may be written "/lit/'s guide" but this is still the product of a single user who somehow convinced himself his opinion was a fair representation of what this board thinks, and based upon the false premise there's something like coherent, homogeneous "lit tastes" he covered himself under this shallow umbrella-word.

>>8151639

Fair, but in that case I wish there were a better vocabulary of humor. Terms like "dry humor" are broad enough to include everything north of Family Guy.

(recommendations appreciated)

>lit
>fun

im here to make everyone feel stupid and assert my patricianity. thats literally it.

>>8152898
I'm just here to shitpost, it's pretty fun to me

broicism

hays

English

That would be religion.

>>8151520
define meme

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>>8151520
I thought this was one of the earliest ones.

>>8151368
I suppose you aren't getting Dubliners

If I get quints, I'll read Quintillionaires

>>8151390
I suppose you aren't getting Quintillionaires.

>>8151340

Kaufman is pretty top-tier for a Hollywood writer. Adaptation was fun.

Also, /tv/

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OP regrets this.

Deep af

If you know English and it takes you more than two weeks to learn Spanish kill yourself.

>>8151369

Okay cool thanks.

Would you happen to know where I could learn early 17th century Spanish?

>>8151338

I think that the current Grossman translation is actually quite good, desu, and much better than the Jarvis translation that I initially read.

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>he doesn't realize that we live in an age of autism

I've literally never seen or heard anyone use the word scientism, here or otherwise.

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>>8151336
The mentality is definitely strong here though. Lots of people on /lit buy the STEM/Humanities dichotomy.

>>8151167
Write two full pages every day. Go as slow as you must to get consistent letters.

Also write with a decent implement, a nice pencil is OK but a fountain pen is ideal. You can get a cheap one for five dollars.

What is picrelated? I've been staring at it for 10 minutes

>>8151263
I may be way off the mark but I think it's a guide for forming letters. Remember learning cursive with the dotted line in the middle to guide you? Something like that.

Anyhow, OP, quit worrying about it. So long as you can make your handwriting legible why should it matter? Most people are just reading text nowadays.

Anything by Wolfe
Anything by any of the Brontë sisters
Anything by Le Guin
Middlemarch
Anything by your mum

>>8151113
>20th century
Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion
>Romance
The Sorrows of Young Werther
>sf/fantasy
Book of the New Sun obviously
>Classic
As I Lay Dying
>something else
some Borges short stories.

>>8151122
I've been eyeing Ursula K Le Guin for a while now but don't know where to begin. What's a good intro to her work?

I've never been interested in fantasy or science fiction. I don't mind it, I've just never read much fantasy outside of Tolkien.

>>8151081
aah? Its perfect actually.

Actually being serious Salinger?

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>and after a while everyone noticed he was the man who wrote notes from underground

Come on, Dostoyevsky. You can do better than that.

Why are you trying to write this?

>>8151110
Not OP but I thought this sort of thing would be quite interesting a few years ago. Like Kant's philosophy relies a lot on that kind of Newtonian/Cartesian "empty space is like a stage" type of metaphysics as its starting point, so how does it react to a situation where that is no longer true? Or how must it change regarding new theories of how the universe works? That sort of thing.

A better idea would be sitting down and having a long think about how you've gotten to the point where this is what you've decided is worth expending effort on and make an attempt to do something else

Motivation is a clutch. Learn to control your will.

Meditate.

And maybe read some Nietzsche, lol

>>8151035
I can't do it, though

I just can't do anything without going back to 4chan. This place never gets boring.

>>8151041

>This place never gets boring.

How old are you? It will get boring real fast when you aren't a teenager anymore. Being honest here.

>>8151023
But I do leave my room?

Isolation is the human condition in most of the developed world. The public space is full of judgement, misrepresentation and misunderstandings, coloured by a need for continual competition in the name of competition alone. Withdrawing from that circus is not so much a choice anymore but the logical conclusion.

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>>8151047
>The public space is full of judgement, misrepresentation and misunderstandings

This is only disappointing if you believe something like a complete undrestanding, clear representation is achievable in the first place. Truth is, especially when it comes to human interaction, nothing of that sort is possible, eveything is always a "work in progress", there is no resolution no mutual, perfect and clear comprehension. Probably, not even self-analysis in a complete self analysis can lead you to a clear, perfect, mirror-like representation of yourself.

>>8150992
*its

>>8150993
Thank you.

>>8150992
>The accumulation of information is not it's application.
how do i apply this information?